Gregory Corso Quotes

East Side, West Side, all around the town

I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

I've been in New York City now for 22 years.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.

I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.

I grew up in New York City and in London.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.

I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.

It's a love-and-hate relationship with New York. Much like Hong Kong, it's expensive, crowded, the weather is not so nice. But New York is home, and I love New York.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.